By Edward Paice
Everyone knows that Nairobi’s Kibera district is the largest “informal settlement”, or slum, in sub-Saharan Africa. At least, they used to know. Politicians, journalists, NGOs and urban planning professionals routinely declared that 700,000 - 1,000,000 people lived in Kibera. But when the district was geo-statistically mapped...

The Atlantic Council's Africa Center hosted a discussion on the book On the Fault Line: Managing Tensions and Divisions within Societies recently.
The panel was moderated by Mary Carlin Yates, former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Africa on the National Security Staff. It included J. Peter Pham, director of the Africa...

The Nordic Africa Institute has published an excellent paper on one of the world’s most conflict prone regions: the Horn of Africa (which, broadly defined, encompasses Somalia/Somaliland, Eritrea, Djibouti, Ethiopia, and parts of Kenya, Sudan, and Southern Sudan).
Kidane Mengisteab, the author, does an especially good job analyzing “the core...

With almost half of the world’s poor, and a combination of weak government and divided societies, fragile states contribute disproportionately to the world’s instability and violence.

This forum seeks to understand them and address their core challenges. It is edited by Seth Kaplan and welcomes guest writers.